. thank you for joining us. i'm jc hayward. president obama faced reporters on the 100th day of his second term. this morning he discussed his budget battle with congress. what's happening in syria, and the latest on the boston bombing investigation. danielle nottingham reports. >> reporter: president obama stepped up to the podium to

answer questions. >> based on what i've seen so far, the f.b.i. performed its duties. the department of homeland security did what it was supposed to be doing but this is hard stuff. >> reporter: the. called on lawmakers to -- the president called on lawmakers to tackle the rest of the automatic spending cuts. >> it is true that the sequester is in place right now. it's damaging our economy, hurting our people. and we need to lift it. >> reporter: the. confirmed the u.s. -- the president confirmed the u.s. is sending medical supplies and food to rebel forces in syria and discussed the syrian government's suspected use of chemical weapons. >> when i am making decisions about america's national security and the potential for taking additional action in response to chemical weapon use, i've got to make sure i've got the facts. >> reporter: the president again called the use of

chemical weapons a game changer and suggested he would consider u.s. military action against syria. daniel nottingham, cbs news, the white house. the florida man charged with killing an unarmed african- american teenager is back in court today. prosecutors in the case against george zimmerman want to know if the defendant plans to seek immunity in trayvon martin's death. under florida's stand your ground defense law, zimmerman could argue that he feared for his life when he killed martin last year. 17-year-old martin was shot and killed during a scuffle with zimmerman. dzhokhar tsarnaev, the suspect in the boston marathon bombings has a new attorney. the magistrate judge in the case has approved the addition of judy clark to tsarnaev's defense team. clark has a long history of working with high profile defendants. she has represented ted

kaczynski, susan smith and jared loughner. tsarnaev has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction in the april 15 blast which killed three people and injured more than 260 others. federal and state inspectors say they plan to open a probe into the platinum magic carpet ride. the maryland bus company is facing more scrutiny after an accident in ohio. about a dozen new york city high school students were thrown from their seats when one of the company's charter buses overturned in columbus, ohio while returning from st. louis. fortunately no one suffered a serious injury. the cause of the crash is under investigation. the bus is operated by platinum magic carpet ride in waldorf, maryland. the man behind platinum once ran lydia bus tours which was closed down last year. >> they changed their colors. they're abc trucking company or bus company one day and xyz

company the next day. >> the drivers and vehicles of platinum magic carpet ride have never been inspected. jury deliberations are set to get under way in the murder trial of a philadelphia abortion provider. dr. kermit gosnell has been accused of killing four babies born alive after botched abortions. marley hall reports from philadelphia that gosnell could get the death penalty if he's convicted. >> reporter: lawyers in the murder trial after philadelphia abortion provider arrived at court this morning where jurors are set to begin deliberating the fate of dr. kermit gosnell. the 72-year-old veteran doctor is accused of cutting the spinal cords of four babies born alive following illegislate-term abortions. he's also accused of killing a 41-year-old patient during a 2009 procedure. during closing arts yesterday, prosecutors wheeled out a filthy table to show jurors conditions inside the clinic he ran for 30 years, a place they

called a house of horrors. but gosnell's lawyer argued the babies were already dead and the patient's deft was an accident. -- death was an accident. they accused prosecutors of sensationalizing the case to make headlines. >> house of horrors it was not and that was the evidence we argued. >> reporter: the defense claims gosnell was helping poor, desperate women who were running out of options. the case hinges on whether jurors believe witnesses that testified the babies showed signs of life like crying or breathing or whether they were stillborn as the defense claims. the case has reignited the abortion debate. opponents say clinics like gosnell's are not uncommon. >> his clinic is not an anomaly. it's more of the standard. >> reporter: but abortion rights advocates say more needs to be done to ensure abortions are safe and accessible so women don't go to clinics like

gosnell's. marley hall for cbs news, philadelphia. >> gosnell is also charged with performing illegal third-term abortions and failing to counsel patients. still to come when wusa9 continues, she says she was simply looking for love online. but she claims she was unfairly busted for prostitution. we'll have this woman's unusual story when

my special guest michele not only designs beautiful scarves but she's also helping to break the cycle of poverty for women. she's the owner of nepali by tdm. i would like to welcome her. look what she has on. do you mind if i just undress her. what do you think? i love this. i've never undressed a woman on the air. oh, the microphone is on.

how gorgeous. what makes these so special besides the design. i wanted to take it off but your mike is on. >> we have a community of women, about 125 women. i do a lot of the designing and they do the work. and we have changed their lives. these are women who came from western nepali. very poor. they are using craftsmanship that they learned as children. this is hand woven. this is cashmere hand woven. this is a great one. halle barry has been seen wearing this one a couple of times. >> this one is red. look at that. it's gorgeous. >> this is silk chiffon. the technique is that the women actually work the wool right into it. >> that is pretty. the signs are all so different and the fabric. this is gorgeous. >> it's very high quality fabric and beautiful cashmere

and beautiful bamboo. this is a feather weight cashmere right here. you feel how fine and soft. >> it is. >> it's a wonderful story. we put their children through school. we gave their children scholarships through school. we bring in medical care for the women so that they and their families can come in and have access to medical care. so each scarf that is created and sold, we sold over 900 stores around the country, still online. but each one makes such a difference in their lives. >> you sell them online. >> we sell them online. >> give me an idea of the cost. >> this is hand worven, bamboo, comes from inside of the bamboo shoot. this is hand dyed. this is tie dyed and screen printed. these are crocheted but crocheted from the very beginning out n. would retail for about $110. >> that's not bad for the workmanship and the women. just think of this women. you have changed these women's

lives. how did you get into this? >> i was doing some other textiles out of nepal bringing in custom rugs from nepal. one of the vendors handed me some cashmere. it was a blanket and i thought we have to be able to bring this back to the states. so i asked if we could make scarves and he introduced me to his sister. this was 2007. >> i'm going to put your information on jchayward.com. if you'd like to purchase a scarf, i'll put your site on so they can go to you. congratulations. thank you for the work that you've done. howard has the forecast. >> jc, dripping out here. the drizzle and mist continues. a soggy tuesday but we've got better days ahead. we'll go to break with a look at some of the temps locally which are getting closer to 60 degrees now from manassas to national. still in the middle 50s in laurel and columbia 56. back with a sunnier forecast when wusa9 news

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this deal starts at $29. if you have a deal for our viewers, i'd love to hear from you on facebook. i'm jessica doyle, wusa9. a local woman believes that she was unfairly busted for prostitution after looking for love on craigslist. it owrns out that the man that -- it turns out that the man that befriended her was an undercover cop. andrea mccarren has this unusual story. we have a warning that the following report has adult content. >> i don't use drugs. i don't drink alcohol. >> reporter: this woman we'll call donna insists she was looking for a little romance trying to find a so-called friend with benefits. >> i was focused on the location and that the fact they were looking for someone with my body type. >> reporter: instead she was busted for prs institution. >> i said -- prostitution. >> i said what is this about. he said you are being arrested for prostitution. >> reporter: donna is a highly educated employed woman in her 50s. she responded to this ad on craigslist and began an e-mail

correspondence with a man she says simply wanted a glimpse of her breasts. >> i've been getting that question since sixth grade. >> reporter: the two met on a weekday evening in this busy northern virginia parking lot in front of a target. minutes later she got into his car and they drove here to an office parking lot next door. >> at one point while we were just chit-chatting he proposed a position for full on everything. i was like what? here? no. >> reporter: then she says he indicated he wanted to get started. >> so i took that as a clue to unhook my brassiere. >> reporter: she said that prompted a angry response. >> you stop that now. >> reporter: fear she says took over. >> i just froze in my seat. at that point he said, look here, and he had money in his hand. >> reporter: he says he shoved a fist full of cash in front of

her face and issued a command. >> take it. >> reporter: donna did as she was told and acknowledges she never tried to escape. >> i was frozen. i was just deathly afraid. >> reporter: moments later the car was grounded. >> guns and guys in black with masks on. >> reporter: donna says she feared for her life until she spotted a fairfax county police logo on one of their sleeves. >> i was relieve thatd i wasn't going to -- that i wasn't going to get killed or attacked or raped. >> reporter: one year later donna was convicted. in court the prosecution focused on the word "roses" in the craigslist ad, an apparent code word for cash. the ad reads, i've got 200 roses. >> it looked like he was looking for a date and i had $200 to spend on a date. there was no sex mentioned. >> reporter: remarkably donna returned to craigslist after the incident and found her current boyfriend whom she's been dating for the last year.

fairfax county police tell us cases like this are handled by its organized crime and narcotics unit and that detectives do investigate several cases that stem from online ads. those have increased dramatically in recent years. police say human trafficking is sometimes involved in which a victim is forced into these situations against their will. andrea mccarren, wusa9. >> donna was given a $1,000 fine and she spent several weekends in jail. she was offered a plea deal which did not involve jail time but she refused. she insists that she didn't do anything illegal and she's upset because there's apparently no video or audiotape of the incident recorded by police. let's go to howard and get the forecast. >> the drizzle continues. look at our michael & son weather camera all wet from this constant drizzle and mist that's been going on here. it's going to be on and off through the afternoon as temperatures slowly climb to 63, 64 late this afternoon.

winds out of the east and east, northeast 10 to 15 miles an hour. you see how the clouds really go back here toward western maryland. then we've got sunshine and all of the moisture streaming in from the east. little area of low pressure. see the swirl there? that's throwing the moisture back our way. you see the radar echoes across delaware and the eastern shore. going to show you a little different view. this is the radar without the satellite. look at this flow of moisture coming in now and how we're seeing all of this light rain, mist, drizzle if you will extending from frederick right down 270 toward calvert county. the eastern shore, easton over to denton. this goes all the way back to rehoboth. crossing the bay with on and off drizzle right toward the metro now with the scattered heavy mist and drizzle here from areas around upper marlboro, up through capitol heights into d.c. here 270. this goes up toward frederick. not the prettiest day. it's not a deluge but just enough to keep things on the soggy side. temps have been struggling

under the clouds. it is 62 in fredricksburg and 63 in culpeper and luray. we're only 52 in oakland. they had some dense fog this morning. annapolis 58. andrews 55 along with gaithersburg. outside in washington, reagan national now in the foreground there, visibility down thanks to the drizzle and the mist and the temperature 59 degrees with a light rain if you will or a heavy mist. east wind at 13. just a raw midday. much, much better days to come because after today, well, we'll start to break things up. the easterly winds continuing today so the atlantic moisture, you saw it on the satellite and radar, it continues to move toward us. improvement begins tomorrow and it's going to stay nice through the upcoming weekend. underneath the clouds we have 50s here. where the sun is out, new york is 65. out west look at the warm air. st. louis already 80 ahead of a front. if we can get rid of the clouds, we're going to warm up and that's what we're going to

do. big storms across parts of the midwest headed toward michigan now. a lot of sun to the west. it's this low level moisture that's just been bugging us. [ no audio ]

up' supporting the women of that pal by wearing this beautiful scarf but i'm also supporting local farms. i have chef jordan from the eastern shore at the beart lieutenant pear inn which is a seven-bed inn. >> a boutique hotel, bed and breakfast, fine dining. focused on local ingredients, passionate about everything. >> what are you preparing? >> we're going to do springtime vegetables that traditionally goes with lamb. you take the freshest vegetables right out of the dirt, scrub them down. you fabricate the vegetables in the way that you want meaning you take off all the steles and any undesirable pieces and cook them till they're just tender.

>> you just put them in there. >> i have a secret. i use a cake tester to see if they're tender or not. a cake tester is great for a lot of things in the kitchen. >> you use a lot of -- you use a lot of local farms. >> we're going to do a light glaze using nice farm butter. you can how yellow it is. it's like gold. we do a touch of butter and water. that's what makes this recipe so beautiful. >> that's all? >> that's it. >> you gave me the recipe on jchayward.com. >> this is the simplest way to get the most out of the ingredients because we don't want to mess with mother nature. we just want to give it a little bit of tenderness, add a little butter, salt, water, no stock necessary. it's going to be a beautiful glaze of vegetables. >> that looks good. the finished product is there. look at the lamb that you brought. that's beautiful. >> this is wagon wheel ranch lamb out of mount airy, maryland, another one of our

local farms. we have probably about 25 to 30 farms that we're working with directly. i call them at nighttime at the end of service and i say i need this and this and this. they pick it in the morning and bring it to me and it's on the table at night. >> it doesn't get much fresher than that. >> we're developing -- or not doving. it's there. we're pursuing the philosophy of dirt to table in one day. >> beartlet pear -- bartlet pear inn. you'll find it, a fabulous small inn with fine dining. i'll be seeing you real soon, real soon. be sure to say hello to jordan lloyd. this is beautiful. thank you for coming up to see us. >> thank so you much for having us. thank you for being with us. be sure to support the women of that pal. it will be on -- nepal. it will be on my website. his recipe will be on jchayward.com. come back and visit us at 5:00.